Examining Indigenous Persistence and Survivance: Historical Archaeology at Mission Espada

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This paper will present preliminary data from excavations and collections analysis at the Mission Espada in San Antonio, Texas. This is part of a larger multiscalar project that examines the lived experiences of Indigenous neophytes at Mission Espada and its associated ranch, Rancho de las Cabras, in eighteenth-century San Antonio. Exploring the daily lives of the Indigenous neophytes at these missions is essential to understanding how the missions functioned within the broader Spanish Empire. The second component of this project seeks to understand the effects historical narratives and conceptions of heritage have on contemporary relationships between different cultural groups in Central Texas. My paper places these two sites in Texas within the broader context of global colonial entanglements and their modern-day consequences.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 37660.0